Description: Excel spreadsheet example of GAAP calculations for an immediate annuity showing benefit reserves, DAC, and Unearned Revenue Liability [URL] from the 2010 U.S. GAAP & IFRS conference in New York.

Description: This 1980 session covers amendments to the SNL and SVL and the anticipated revision to the CSO Mortality Table. Questions discussed: 1. What changes can be expected in requirements in the1980's? 2. What changes in products design will likely emerge from these? 3. What will be the effect on future gross premium, cash value, and reserve levels? 4. Will these changes be compatible with all economic forecast scenarios? 5. Will these changes create a need for increased gross premium rates or for higher company surplus levels? 6. Should attention to solvency measures be increased? 7. Are the allowable valuation interest rates sufficiently liberal?

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This panel discussed the latest trends in mortality including: 1. The new 1994 Group Annuity Mortality and1994 Uninsured Pension tables. 2. Should future improvements be built into the table? If so, how?

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about status of new mortality table developments in the pension arena, impact of new mortality tables on annuity valuations, and the effect of new mortality tables on defined-benefit plan minimum funding and pension expensing.

Description: Table of Contents for the May 1999 Spring meeting of the Society of Actuaries

Description: Discusses the need for a new life insurance valuation mortality table to replace the 1941 CSO, the authorization by the NAIC to form a committee to construct such a table, and the preliminary table developed.

Description: This session from the Washington Spring Meeting provides an update on variable annuity VA riders, including guaranteed minimum death benefits GMDBs, guaranteed minimum income benefits GMIBs, guaranteed minimum accumulation benefits GMABs and guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefits GMWBs. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 1, Session 21pd.

Description: This 1977 panel discussion focused on the implications of proposed revisions of the standard valuation and nonforfeiture laws. Areas discussed included: 1. A regulator's perspective 2. Applications to Life and Annuities 3. applications to Pensions

Description: Discusses mortality improvements over the last 20 years, the extent to which premiums on nonparticipating policies reflect the changes in mortality experience, the proposed new valuation table, should valuation tables be split by gender, and extra mortality on substandard lives at very long durations.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. The panelists provided a brief description of the guaranteed benefits offered on Variable Annuities in both the U.S. and Canada, followed by an in-depth comparison of current issues, including risk assessment, reserving, and cash-flow testing.